“Well, thank you,” Martien snarls through the phone. “You drove away and the gate was open. The dogs got out and attacked runners.” Maxime does not know what to hear when her father tells about the catastrophe. She is absolutely convinced that the gate was closed when they drove off in their Mini. The castle owner is furious. “We heard barking, barking, barking and eventually Dirk had to get them off the street. The negativity about the Meilandjes in Hengelo has already started!”
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Despite the fact that Martien is afraid of image damage, he is not afraid to rip the image of his former girlfriend Caroline to shreds. In his book he hangs the dirty laundry outside. Caroline would rather not say a word about the matter, but does reveal on RTL Boulevard that she has been bribed to stay away from the family.
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